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Show TIGER CAN HUNT YOU AS YOU HUNT HIM I Lock Helped This Man Because I r Died on Reachlne Him H "WITS great uport to hunt a tiger." M j anld a wan who bun traveled all H orer the world to kill big game; M "Mit. bellovo mo, It's no fun to have n H tiger hunt you. H "I found that out In 1 rid In last year, L hero I hud go no to try the favorite P PHuthno of (ho EhkIIhU urtny oUlcern. m pig Htlcklnjr. I took it rlllo to my sta- M tlnn rh well an my npcnr In chho I B Miould get h flight of any other unlmnl tliitu u boar, RHd It was u mighty lucky MMUUill-iliJMMiWfalMMwn i-" M"" " wmi n "Aftor tha army of native boatcra M had been flan comhlujr tho Junglca and making outlandish nolsea for half nn H hour tlioro enmo a tremondoua nolso H In Kotno busheti near me, and 1 trot H ready with my apenr. Hut a nccoud B later I dropped It In astonishment, for 1 out crawled a tremendous tiger. H "1 had Just tlmo to got my rlflo and H aim when ho leaped at me. My bullet I ' Hi WUUN TIIU TIUMI HUUttlir ItKVBNfiM. -j Hi ' wont through both hta front igs mid I H with a snarl of agony ho dipped back i Ht Into the Jungle. H "TUw sudden nnd ovIdouCy uuox H pevtod appearaaoo or lh tlrrr liad Hi dllml the iiHiii IkhUui with terror. H and it wart with great dltlhnlty thai HI they could be ludiued to go to the top H' or the rnvluo and roll stones down Into H', the thicket to rout the tiger out. H "At last a big Htone must huve hit H him Bomewhere, for he came rushing Hi from tho thleket and wont crashing H ad nurlair away tnto tho Junglo on j Hn Uto other aide. i Hf ,wl'ho trail was easily sighted, for It K wait a trail of bkod. It had not led m ' f far when we haw the tiger standing K among a tangled mass of reeds ntul ' W twisteil roots. I tlrwl on sight. Tho H ttgr staggervsl and fell, lying broad- H sld to us, showing tho full splendor of his glistening skin. j H ' "Huddonly without warning: tho gnwt H tlgor rose to his feet and dashetl nudly H towanl us. My guide turned to the H hrt and broke luto the Jungle. I rush-H rush-H wl In another direction, following close I H oh the heoU of the llylug coolies. Th i tiger followixl me. H "In trplte of his wounded condition i Teoiiid rfioi ma not bremlf on my neck. In my blind terror 1 xtumhlod and fell, fltrlltliig. my iioad against the hocls of a coolie In front of mo flint fall was rill thnt prevented the tiger from boinK In at the denth of me inaiuud of my being In at the denth of the tlgur. "Am I fell the tiger had gathere.d blttiHolf for a Iwip. Ho leaped, pushing push-ing ovur me like n shot as I lay prostrate pros-trate in the weed, nnd his great claws burled themselves In the linked llesh of Hie coolie's .ihoulduM Ills rol Jaws closed on tho poor devil's neck. The coolie uttered one shriek, nnd tlgor and victim foil bnckward acrostt mo where I Iny. driving the breath out of me. Tho next I knew tho guldo was holding ray head on bis kuen und a flask of brandy to my lips. Tiger and coolie Iny dead at my feet. "'Hut in reward for my nerve rfiHke I got the llnest skin thut I have evoi keen." |